How to Use tokamak in a Sentence

tokamak

noun

• One of these two needs to be big for the tokamak to work.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2020
• And the scale of the impact depends on the size of the tokamak, for example.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2020
• The tokamak is lined with strong magnets that hold the plasma in.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• But heat must be able to vent out of the tokamak, and that’s where destruction starts.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2021
• In every tokamak, there is a null point in the magnetic field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2020
• Assembly is set to begin next year in a giant hall erected next to the tokamak site.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• So what goes wrong with magnets in a typical tokamak run?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2022
• Spherical tokamaks do this by seeking to hold the plasma in the center of the device, close to the central column.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 19 June 2018
• Assembly [of the tokamak] will be quite challenging and hard to stay on schedule.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 19 June 2018
• Most of the energy will be carried away by neutrons, which will escape the plasma and strike the walls of the tokamak, producing heat.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• The tokamak chamber, seen from the top (top) and middle (bottom), is a cylinder that will hold the ITER experiment.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
• So in a tokamak reactor, plasma is heated more and more until its charged ions start to merge.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2022
• In a tokamak, without such a strong gravitational pull, the atoms need to be about 10 times hotter.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• In a tokamak, microwaves and particle beams heat the fuel and magnetic fields trap it.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 13 Dec. 2022
• The inner vessel wall of the tokamak was upgraded from graphite to beryllium.
  — David Donovan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
• And the best results were 3.5 times better than for an equivalent tokamak device.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 May 2018
• For a tokamak, that is fine because the field has to terminate somewhere, and the device operates in pulses.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 May 2018
• The stellarator, however, traps the plasma in a twisting and spiraling shape, rather than the torus (doughnut shape) of a tokamak.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2018
• Where did the compact advanced tokamak design concept come from?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2021
• This pumps out the diverted particles and removes any excess heat to protect the tokamak.
  — David Donovan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
• Like many of the world’s tokamak experiments, EAST has reached fusion before.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2020
• This is the situation in a tokamak when chirping occurs.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2020
• But even this kind of fusion divides into a further two camps: tokamaks and stellarators.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2023
• The tokamak is on track to switch on in 2025, and then the reactor will begin to heat up to temperatures hot enough to induce nuclear fusion.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
• But no tokamak has generated more energy from fusion than is used to heat up the plasma.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
• In Williams’ engine prototype, this tokamak would be nearly spherical—more like a donut hole.
  — Meghan Herbst, Wired, 17 June 2021
• One approach is to confine it with magnetic fields into a doughnut shape inside a chamber called a tokamak.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2022
• Small spherical tokamaks are one of the technologies that have brought fusion within the reach of private companies.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• There are currently two types of magnetic confinement devices in use: the tokamak and the stellarator.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2016
• In a tokamak or a stellarator, the hot plasma is limited to a density of 10 14 deuterons per cubic centimeter.
  — Bayarbadrakh Baramsai, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024